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3 October 2003 (UK)
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Sex... Scandal... Celebrity... Some things never change.
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An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies," is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s. full summary | add synopsis
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10 nominations
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tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally gets an Oscar nom?
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tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally get an Oscar nom?
(From The Movie Fanatic. 16 October 2009, 3:29 AM, PDT)
(From The Movie Fanatic. 16 October 2009, 3:29 AM, PDT)
tMF Oscarwatch: Will James McAvoy finally get an Oscar nom?
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A witty and poignant entertainment
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Simon McBurney | ... | Sneath (Photo-Rat) |
 | Michael Sheen | ... | Miles |
 | Emily Mortimer | ... | Nina Blount |
 | James McAvoy | ... | Simon Balcairn |
 | Stephen Campbell Moore | ... | Adam Fenwick-Symes |
 | Stockard Channing | ... | Mrs. Melrose Ape |
| Adrian Scarborough | ... | Customs Officer |
| Jim Carter | ... | Chief Customs Officer |
| Fenella Woolgar | ... | Agatha |
 | Dan Aykroyd | ... | Lord Monomark |
| Julia McKenzie | ... | Lottie Crump |
| Bruno Lastra | ... | Basilio |
 | David Tennant | ... | Ginger Littlejohn |
 | Jim Broadbent | ... | The Drunken Major |
| John Franklyn-Robbins | ... | Judge |
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Rated R for some drug use.
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106 min | Canada:105 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Director Stephen Fry commissioned two contemporary songs from The Pet Shop Boys for the movie - a cover version of Noel Coward's The Party's Over Now and a Pet Shop Boys-penned title track. These songs were written and recorded, but were edited out in the last minute because the director decided to stick to period music.
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Anachronisms: A television aerial can be seen on the right hand rooftops in the external shot of the hotel that Adam and Nina stay at.
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Nina Blount:
Oh, dear. Have I been sold again?
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Featured in 2005 Glitter Awards (2005) (V)
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By A Waterfall
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Stephen Fry's directorial debut, an adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel "Vile Bodies", manages to score more hits than misses. A clever satire on the high society lives of upper class English youth between the wars, Fry manages to balance camp frivolity and underlying poignancy so that this movie both celebrates the pursuit of hedonism whilst functioning as a morality tale that shows how such pursuits inevitably end in disaster. Thankfully, Fry clearly has a non-judgmental affection for the colourful but wayward party animals, young and not so young, who populate this story, and the sincerely felt central love story of Adam Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer) ensures that the essential frothiness of the story is underpinned by a sharp intelligence and seriousness of purpose.
Well performed by its ensemble cast, and featuring a choice selection of enjoyable cameo performances by a host of British and American character actors, "Bright Young Things" is a slight but thoroughly recommended entertainment.